Clarkston
Costco, anywhere town, USA. Chris does the night shift. Drifter Jake forms a bond with him, their friendship leading to adventure.
Jack Serio directs Joe Locke in Samuel D. Hunter’s new play.
Clarkston
Offer expires: Wed, 19th November 2025
Book between: Tue, 4th November 2025 and Wed, 19th November 2025
Buy best available top non-premium price £75, second price £60 or fifth price £25 (£95, £65, £25 Friday and Saturday) tickets (from agency / offer allocation) reduced to £55 / £45 / £15 each at all Monday to Wednesday performances ONLY.
EXTRA OFFER: Also available for all Thursday to Saturday performances until 08th November 2025.
Original seat prices may vary by performance, and this offer may not be available at all times - the system will advise at time of enquiry.
Some "peak dates" are excluded. The system will advise at time of enquiry.
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Clarkston
Offer expires: Fri, 14th November 2025
Book between: Mon, 27th October 2025 and Wed, 19th November 2025
Buy best available top non-premium price £75, second price £60 or third price £40 tickets (from agency / offer allocation) tickets reduced to £55 / £45 / £20 each at all Monday to Thursday performances ONLY.
Original seat prices may vary by performance, but the discount price applies if available. The system will advise at time of enquiry.
Some "peak dates" are excluded - including 13th and 20th November 2025 - the system will advise at time of enquiry.
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Clarkston
Offer expires: Wed, 19th November 2025
Book between: Fri, 24th October 2025 and Wed, 19th November 2025
Buy best available top non-premium price £75, second price £60 or fifth price £25 (£65, £45, £25 Friday and Saturday) tickets (from agency / offer allocation) reduced to £55 / £45 / £20 each at all performances.
Original seat prices may vary by performance, and this offer may not be available at all times - the system will advise at time of enquiry.
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Clarkston
Offer expires: Sun, 16th November 2025
Book between: Fri, 31st October 2025 and Wed, 19th November 2025
Buy best available top non-premium price £75, second price £60 or fifth price £25 (£95, £65, £25 Friday and Saturday) tickets (from agency / offer allocation) reduced to £55 / £45 / £20 each at all Monday to Wednesday performances ONLY.
EXTRA OFFER: Also available for all Thursday to Saturday performances until 08th November 2025.
Original seat prices may vary by performance, and this offer may not be available at all times - the system will advise at time of enquiry.
Some "peak dates" are excluded. The system will advise at time of enquiry.
Ticket selection is from agency's allocation. Subject to allocation availability, change, withdrawal and agency discretion. Not available on tickets already purchased.
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Offer expires: Sun, 16th November 2025
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The above productions are in this offer.
All provide a LIMITED number of seats for this offer. Not all shows supply tickets at all prices.
Original ticket prices may vary by performance, and some prices are not available on all dates, the system will advise at time of enquiry.
Some "peak dates" are excluded. The system will advise at time of enquiry.
Ticket selection is by agency allocation. Subject to allocation availability, change, withdrawal and agency discretion.
(seen at the afternoon preview performance on 24th September 2025)
Almost certainly you would have missed “Wish List” in 2017 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. A fledgling Erin Doherty burned the retinas off us with a dazzling performance as a worker for Amazon, trying to keep herself and her troubled brother afloat.
The Donmar too does a nice line in “Worker” plays, Lynn Nottage seemingly their resident US seer. Now Samuel D. Hunter brings his take direct to the West End, in a plush little theatre which instantly feels out of step with this concept - despite placing audiences on hard plastic chairs onstage.
In fairness, with Milla Clarke’s set extending only to one 3-level rack of industrial shelving (not in fact high enough for the key TV set, a horrible, horrible error in staging logic) and a few boxes, live scene dressing fills a space and does close the angles for a little intimacy. More important, it gives a chance of a cheaper ticket, rather in keeping with the financial struggles of Hunter’s characters.
Question being, is it worth the trouble? For the performances, maybe. Joe Locke has an uncanny ability to break down his wealthy, rebellious façade as Jake at will, to reveal something surprising for a few moments, then revert instantly to type. He externalises a desires to assist, but also to control others when he has no control of himself.
Ruaridh Mollica as Chris has the less well written role of local boy with a troubled background. Seeking to educate Jake where possible, victim of caprice and circumstance, Mollica is oddly ill-served by Hunter’s imagination yet builds a substantial character from it.
Chris’s mother Trisha (Sophie Melville) counterbalances the pair. The performance avoids cliché – single mother, drug addict, waitress, nothing new – as Melville strives to portray a warm bond with her son – undermined very well in one particularly difficult scene.
Sadly, much of the play feels as inconsequential as her character. Just like Trisha, there is nothing in the setup we haven’t seen many times before, equally smoothly written but building to a revelatory point. Here, the dénouement feels awkward, emotional - with a time-slip as odd as the 'TV set incongruity' it springs from.
The only real revelation is Stacy Derosier’s impressive lighting design. Requiring the removal of two rows of seats, the harsh sodium yellow gives way to something clever enough for the monkey to stay behind later and walk onto the stage to understand more about how it was achieved.
That it is a visual effect rather than the text which made it linger is something of a disappointment. Rather like Costco, this production is functionally efficient but lacking in any refinement that encourages us to explore every aisle it tries to present.
The monkey advises checking performance times on your tickets and that performances are happening as scheduled, before travelling.
| Run Time: | 1 hour 40 minutes, with no interval |
| Monday: | 7.30pm |
| Tuesday: | 7.30pm |
| Wednesday: | 7.30pm |
| Thursday: | 3pm, 7.30pm |
| Friday: | 7.30pm |
| Saturday: | 3pm, 7.30pm |
| Sunday: | X |
Venue Box Office & Current Prices
0333 009 6690Venue box office details and show price charts are available on the Trafalgar Theatre page.
Address: 14 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY
Box Office: 0333 009 6690
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